Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

The reward for attention is always healing.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.